Game.



No. 686,478. Patented Nov. I2, |901.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

HENRY PROCOPEE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

GAME. l

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,478, dated November 12, 1901.

Application filed Julyll 3 19 0l.

To a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY PRoooPEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New ark, in the county of Essex and Stateof New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to gaines and puzzles of the rolling ball and gyratory maze type; and the object thereof is to provide a puzzle and game device of extremely difficultmanipulation and solution and a game of considerable intricacy, and yet at the same time of a simple and cheap -form of construction.

To such ends this invention consists in substance of a main rectangular box or casing provided upon the upper surface of the bottom board with a design in a plurality of colors, usually three in number, which design is usually and preferably that of the ensign of the United States, which receptacle is provided in the corner diagonal to the union of the iag with a rectangular box divided into one entrance and three ball-chambers, each of which is in communication with the en trance-chamber, such entrance-chamber being in communication with the main chamber of the receptacle through a suitable opening, each of the ball-chambers being of a different color, and a plurality of balls for each of the ball-chambers of the same color as the ball-chamber they are designed to enter, the main receptacle being usually provided with a cover of glass, whereby the -balls are at all times retained in the receptacle and cannot be lost. ,Y Y

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each of the views, Figure lis a top plan View of a puzzle board or box of my improved form, showing the balls occupying various positions therein as they will during the game; and Fig. 2 is an end view thereof in section on the line x of Fig. 1 looking to the right in the direction of the arrow.

In the drawings, A designates a box or casing, usually of the rectangular form shown, provided with a bottom board 10, side and Serial No. 68.146. (No model.)

end pieces 1l, and a glass top 12, secured to the topsV of the side pieces 1l. On the bottom of this box is formed in suitable colors a United States national ensign, as shown. In one corner of the box, preferably that diagonal to the union of the flag, is a rectangular box of about the same size as such union, formed of an inner side wall 13 and an inner end wall 14, in the center of which latter is a ball Ydoor or entrance 15, which box is divided by two partitions 16 and 17 into a transverse entrance-chamber 18, side chambers 19 and 20, and a central chamber 21, each of which is in communication at -the forward end, as shown, with the entrance-chamber 18. The ball-chambers 19, 20, and 21 are each of a different color. Usually the chamber 19 is red, lthe chamber 21 white, and the chamber 2O blue, to coincide with the colors of the ensign, and While the entrance-chamber 18 may be of any. color or left white it is usually made of the same color as the chamber 20, as shown.

Within the receptacle are a plurality of balls 22, usually fifteen in number, as shown, of such size as to roll about freely therein, such balls being divided into series of five each, one of such series being red, to coincide'with the color of the ball-chamber 19,

one being white, to coincide with the color of the ball-chamber 21, and another series being blue, to coincide with the color of the ballchamber 2O.V i

The puzzle is to be played bytilting and gyrating the receptacle to cause the balls of the various colors to be at last lodged in the ball-chamber of the same color as the balls, the puzzle being solved when all the red balls are in the red chamber 19, all the white balls in the white chamber 21, and all the blue balls in the blue chamber 20, and the game is to have two persons turn the box about in alimited space of time-say from two to three minutes-the winner being the one who within a given length of time should receptacle the most balls.

I do not desire to coniine myself to the exact formation of parts and construction of details herein shown and described, as I conceive my invention to be novel in plan and broad in its scope.

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rectangular chamber, the bottom of the supplemental chambers being respectively colored red, white and blue, and said receptacle being also provided with a transparent cover, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing Witnesses, this 12th day of June, 1901.

HENRY PROOOPEE.

Witnesses:

L. R. BAYER, F. F. TELLER. 

